Well, it doesn’t come as a huge surprise to see this statement from NASA’s James Hansen, perhaps the top climate scientist in the world. But it’s a statement we seem to keep ignoring. Here’s the statement I’m referring to:
“Climate change — human-made global warming — is happening. It is already having noticeable impacts…. If we stay on with business as usual, the southern U.S. will become almost uninhabitable.”
I just ran across these two global warming politics cartoons over on Climate Progress. Too cool (& accurate) not to share:
Some top (generally, not very cool) political news from the past week or so, other than what we’ve already covered:
Joe Romm of Climate Progress recently had an interesting post on an email from Environmental Defense Fund President Fred Krupp on “how we begin to rebuild public support for climate action and the political will to pass climate legislation.”
I decided to chime in after reading the post with my own 2 cents. Thought I’d share that here.
If you haven’t heard the news yet, two huge environmental organizations just decided to merge — 350.org, which organized what was reportedly the biggest day of global action in October (the 10/10/10 day of global action), and 1Sky, a great organization that has inspired many and accomplished much in recent years.
To be honest, they were already using the same colors, so why not merge?…
But, seriously, this is big news and I’m sure a lot of people are wondering if it’s for better or worse…
Yes, for those familiar with climate politics, you know that Republicans have gone to odd lengths to dismiss the threats of global climate change. The nice thing is that the media is finally starting to pick up on this. Here are a couple quotes from the National Journal’s recent piece, GOP Gives Climate Science A
